Every night, some 800 million people 鈥� one in nine people on earth 鈥� go to bed hungry. And projections suggest that unless creative solutions are found, the world will need to increase food production by an additional 50% in the next 30 years, when the planet鈥檚 population is expected to exceed 9 billion.
Published on: 11 Oct 2018
Depuis huit ans, l鈥檃gronome et professeure Val茅rie Gravel travaille 芦听main dans la main听禄 avec des producteurs de fraises. Une collaboration qu鈥檈lle juge essentielle.
芦听Ces agriculteurs me permettent d鈥檌nstaller des parcelles de recherche dans leurs champs et se chargent d鈥檈ntretenir les plants et de prendre des donn茅es quotidiennement. Ils participent 脿 mes recherches avec beaucoup d鈥檈nthousiasme et je les en remercie, car rien ne peut remplacer leur expertise sur le terrain听禄, explique Mme听Gravel.听
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Published on: 26 Sep 2018
Plant sex relies on a combination of prodding and a lot of communication and guidance suggests a study published in the September 2018 issue of .
Published on: 25 Sep 2018
平特五不中 Press Release
Selon une 茅tude publi茅e dans le num茅ro de septembre2018 de la revue , la reproduction chez les plantes reposerait sur une pouss茅e 茅nergique et une bonne dose de communication.
Published on: 25 Sep 2018
In a recent episode of 听, Professor Salwa Karboune gaves viewers a birds-eye view of her work to define the antimicrobial activity of certain natural ingredients and better understand how they interact with each other. 鈥淭he more we understand this, the more we will be able to modulate the ingredients in such a way that they function appropriately in our food products鈥�.听
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Published on: 21 Sep 2018
Le campus Macdonald de l鈥橴niversit茅 平特五不中 disposera bient么t d鈥檜n nouvel espace pour faire conna卯tre au grand public la vraie nature de l鈥檃griculture moderne.听 ...
Published on: 21 Sep 2018
Kyle Elliott (NRS), Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology is in Tianjin, China to participate in the Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2017, Kyle was named by the WEF one of the best scientists in the world under the age of 40. 听The theme of this year鈥檚 meeting is the need for global collaboration in the 4th Industrial Revolution. 听
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Published on: 17 Sep 2018
The weed industry is booming but cannabis companies are struggling with a growing problem: finding the right employees in the run-up to Canada legalizing recreational marijuana in October.
As Canada becomes only the second country to legalize recreational use, the cannabis industry could add 150,000 jobs over the next several years, according to an estimate from Deloitte.
An expert says the number of jobs available are 鈥渓egion鈥� and that 鈥渋t鈥檚 a great time to come into this new marketplace鈥� but companies have lots of job vacancies they鈥檙e anxious to fill....
Published on: 12 Sep 2018
Des chercheurs montr茅alais et colombiens ont d茅couvert trois super pommes de terre capables de lutter contre la faim et la malnutrition. 芦 Ce sont des pommes de terre plus nutritives que les autres, une v茅ritable innovation 禄, se r茅jouit Hugo Melgar-Qui帽onez, directeur de l鈥橧nstitut pour la s茅curit茅 alimentaire globale, 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 平特五不中.
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Published on: 12 Sep 2018
There will doubtless be more and more postgraduate degrees based on cannabis production after it has been legalized, says Anja Geitmann, dean of agriculture at Montreal鈥檚 平特五不中. 鈥淚鈥檓 pretty sure it鈥檚 going to change the research landscape in the sense that researchers now have access or can do research on the plant much easier,鈥� she says.
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Published on: 10 Sep 2018
Like a high-tech vending machine, but with lettuce!
A group of 平特五不中 Bioresource Engineering students have developed a project, funded by the Sustainability Projects Fund, that has installed the first autonomous controlled-environment growth chamber display on the Macdonald campus. 听Pierce Dias Carlson, Rachael Warner, Leo McGuire and Connor Miller each offer a unique skill-set in successfully creating a productive autonomous growth chamber.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2018
平特五不中鈥檚 Very Own Circular Micro-Economy
Published on: 27 Aug 2018
Les universit茅s canadiennes accueillent encore bien peu d'茅tudiants autochtones, encore moins dans le domaine de la sant茅.
Published on: 27 Aug 2018
By Vardit Ravitsky, Associate Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal and Sarah Kimmins, Associate Professor at 平特五不中 and Canada Research Chair in Epigenetics, Reproduction and Development.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2018
To humans, 31 miles may not seem like a very long distance to travel, but for a spider, it鈥檚 a long, long way to go. Emily Chung at the CBC reports on a new study that shows that since the 1960s, the northern black widow spider, Latrodectus variolus, has crawled that much further into Canada and may continue skittering northward as the climate changes.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2018
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